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<h1>Tessa A. Lau</h1>

4103 236th St. SW Apt. I-101<br>
Mountlake Terrace, WA  98043<br>
(206) 640-5954 H / 543-8086 W<br>
<i>tlau@cs.washington.edu</i><br>
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A summer position involving research in WWW toolkits, computer-aided
navigation of the Internet, interactive networked entertainment,
human-computer interface issues, or software engineering.
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<b>University of Washington, Seattle, WA</b><br>
PhD Program, Computer Science & Engineering<br>
Graduate GPA: 3.75<p>

<b>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY</b><br>
B.A., Computer Science, May 1995<br>
B.S., Applied and Engineering Physics, May 1995<br>
Undergraduate GPA: 3.91<p>
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National Science Foundation Fellowship, The Boeing Company Scholarship,
AT&T Graduate Program for Women grant.
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Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Programming Languages, Automata and
Complexity Theory, Software Engineering, Operating Systems.
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<li> Designed and implemented a WWW toolkit and Web navigator application
<li> Co-authored a simple multiplayer, client/server networked strategy 
     wargame for X11
<li> Implemented a distributed, fault-tolerant web server using the Horus
     distributed toolkit
<li> Implemented a real-time preemptive threads package
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<b>Technical Associate</b> <i>Summer 1995</i><br>
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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<li> Designed a toolkit which provides convenient access to the WWW
information (URLs and data) accessed by users
<li> Modified the CERN httpd proxy server to provide this WWW information
via a network socket
<li> Implemented a graphical web navigator in C++ for the X window system
using this WWW toolkit which displays a tree-oriented view of the links
between WWW objects
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<b>Student Technical Consultant</b> <i>May 1994-May 1995</i><br>
Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY

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<li> Upgraded and maintained network client software for an RS/6000 cluster
<li> Designed and wrote a program to automatically verify links in an
HTML document by connecting to other gopher, FTP, and World Wide Web
servers
<li> Modified or wrote programs used to enhance and maintain the
Theory Center's gopher and WWW on-line information systems
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<b>Technical Associate</b> <i>Summer 1993</i><br>
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ

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<li> Designed a software package for digitizing rectangular regions of a
video stream for use in measuring dynamic RHEED oscillations
<li> Implemented the application using a Matrox video capture board and
Borland C on a 386 PC
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<b>Operating systems:</b> UNIX (Linux, AIX, Ultrix, SunOS), X Window
System, DOS, Macintosh, MS Windows<br>
<b>Languages:</b> C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Python, HTML, Java<br>
<b>Network protocols:</b> HTTP, gopher, FTP, SMTP, NNTP
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